Queensway Carleton Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | 3045 Baseline Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Coordinates | 45°20′5.35″N 75°48′27.61″W / 45.3348194°N 75.8076694°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | General |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 355 |
Helipad | No |
History | |
Opened | 1976 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is a 355-bed hospital located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that delivers acute care and is west Ottawa's only full-service hospital.
QCH was officially opened on October 5, 1976, by then Ontario Premier William Davis and currently serves a population of more than 500,000 and is the secondary referral center for the Ottawa Valley. QCH focuses on its cornerstone health care programs: emergency, childbirth, Geriatric, mental health, rehabilitation, medical and surgical, and critical care.[1]
In 2015 QCH obtained its "Accreditation with Exemplary Standing" from Accreditation Canada, the highest award level of accreditation with an overall compliance score of 99.4 (2014/2026 compliant standards) and meeting all 31/31 Required Organizational Practices.[2]
The executive management team is led by President and chief executive officer Dr. Andrew Falconer[3] and the medical team reports to Chief of Staff Dr. Katalin Kovacs.[4] Dr. Falconer replaced Tom Schonberg who died in February 2019.[5]
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